Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-31
EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1887.

EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1887. Some of the Most Important Arranged
 ChronologicaHy.
 JANUARY.
 Edwurd Buckley badly burned by an ex- plosion of gas in an East Maln street sa- loon.
 Anthony Starchogs lost his hand in ma chinery at Holmes, Booth & Haydens
 Death of Margaret Donahue, wife of At torney Thomas Donahue.
 Patrick Hackett's saloon on East Main street burglarized by boys.
 Nora Begley seriously injured by q runa- way horse
 Death of Mrs Mary Hayes, mother of Dr John F. Hayes. Death of William Perkins at the age of TT.
 Samuel Greenberg's trotter, Knox Girl, fell dead at the finish of brush on the Watertown road. J. B. Hill, drummer, ser1ously injured by runaway on Bank stret.
 Abram Barrett seriously injured by runaway on Bank street. FEBRUARY. Small pox in this city-Michael Fahey, David Gu. tls and Patrick Crannel died at l the pest house. Henry A. Lawler and William Butler l fell from a scaffolding and were seriously | injured A mattrass fire on South Main street. MARCH. Hicks Bros dime lunch room burglar ized of ESQ.,
 Concordia Hall dedicated. l Patrick Lynch struck by double ripper | and one leg broken in two places.
 Rouen Marceau, Frenchman, attempt ed suicide by taking laudanum.
 Another mattrass fire. l Death of Thomas L. Martin.
 George Terrell committed suicide by talk ing laudanum.
 Conlon Bros store burg1arized of s1O0 worth of goods.
 George B. Sedgwick appointed keeper of the Town House.
 The Cooley House opened. Death of Dr J. J. Jacques. One thousand five hundred dollar fire in the American Mills.
 James Dennison's skull fractured at the Clock Case Company's factory.
 Upson & Singleton's store entered. Thief secures a small amount of money. Martin Phinney killed his wife in Nauga- tuck
 Explosion of a kerosene lamp starts fire in Micheal Fahey's house on Dublin street and the building is gutted. A jury in the Superior Court found Dwight S. Todd not guilty of being con. nected with the firing of Mitchell's ware house in Southbury. Wallace & King win the $10,OOO suit brought against them by the Butte Hard ware Company. A town meeting orders a new bridge over Mad river at South Main street.
 Eight -year-old Rosie Herman run ove1 by an ox-cart and killed } Nicholas Pagan died of lockjaw- Slight fire in Holohan's building. r Jeremiah Bergin fell into cellar-way r and fractured his skull ) Mrs Mary Flynn assaulted at the Nc Carthy boarding house. John Ryan's saloon entered by boys ant cigars stolen.
 Marcus Hellman fined S25 and costs fo
 violating the II o'clock law.
 George Gilbert died at the age of Fl, Moulders in Burritt's Foundry go ol
 strike .. ....-,-...... 3 Grade crossing accident at Burnhan 5 street in which Patrick Suspicion lost hi |. life and five others badly injured. 3 Burton c. Hotchkiss, aged 36, a painte fell dead of heart disease. 7 A brakeman named William Kenne, , had his hand and arm badly crushed whil 3 coupling cars at the Naugatuck station. AUGUST. 7 John Tierney, bod carrier, found deat , in his boarding house. Martin Keating killed by Naugatucl , train near the junction. Fred Millers house on Town Plot struck by lightning John Smith found burglarizing flick Bros lunch room.
 SEPTEMBER.
 Calvin H. Carter died at the age of 58. l Romer, the post office thief sentenced t. one year in jail.
 Platt & Bros factory his leg torn off belov the knee,
 Fire in the rear of Walker & Nutting'
 store. Y The Naugatuck station and the post offic
 at Waterville bUrglarized. Rev J. w. Richardson called to the Bap , tist church in Stamford NOVEMBER. Martin Phinney, the Naugatuck wifi murderer, sentenced to life Imprisonment The Naugatuck station and post office a Thomaston burglarized. John McEvoy, bricklayer, fell from : building and sustained severe injuries.
 Nancy A. Russell burned to death. Fire in the japan works of the Scovil Manufacturing Company. James McCann found drowned ill Scovilli ditch Timothy Church's house damaged s30( by fire. DECEMBER. Edward Nuthall died at the age of 52.
 Mrs Patrick Johnson burned to death by : the explosion of kerosene lamp.
 Sherman Steele died at the age of 79. Eight year-old girl of MT Godfrey killed by a runaway at Simonsville.
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